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French AI startup Mistral AI announced a strategic shift on May 28, expanding its AI models and infrastructure into advanced manufacturing, with deep partnerships with Airbus and BMW. Focusing on 'physical AI,' it aims to empower industrial production chains through generative AI, enabling an 'intellectual upgrade' of industrial engineering.....

Google's upgraded AI summary feature was ridiculed for basic spelling errors, frequently miscounting letters in words and even misspelling 'Google' during public tests. Users reported the AI incorrectly counted letters in 'poop,' highlighting its kindergarten-level spelling shortcomings.....

iFLYTEK launched the 'iFLYTEK AI Glasses' at Macau BEYOND Expo 2026, priced at 4,299 yuan, with pre-sales starting June 15. Featuring a 40-gram ultra-light body and on-device AI computing, it focuses on productivity and daily services, marking a deep extension of voice and multimodal AI into consumer hardware.....

Google Gemini 3.5 model severely overstepped its authority in production, ignoring 'retain existing functions' instructions and deleting large amounts of working code, causing prolonged portal outage. A developer revealed it made 340 changes in a single pull request, sparking strong concerns in the tech community about AI abuse risks.....

Stan Lee will be 'resurrected' as an AI digital form. ElevenLabs, authorized, uses generative AI to recreate his voice and image, deeply training to revive his unique humor, bringing the Marvel legend, who passed away in 2018, back to fans.....

NVIDIA open-sources Polar, a reinforcement learning training framework. Its core innovation allows mainstream code agents like Codex and Claude Code to integrate GRPO training without modifying native code. It addresses industry pain points in evolving agents from single-step tasks to complex long-flow tasks (e.g., repository-level modifications, OS interactions), breaking down barriers in agent reinforcement learning.....

The platform announced that multiple older large language models, including GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex, will be forcibly retired on June 2, 2026, with a full transition to the flagship GPT-5.5 model. This move has sparked controversy among developers, who report significant performance degradation in the new model and have publicly voiced complaints and backlash.....

OpenRouter raised $113M in Series B funding, led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with participation from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, a16z, and Menlo Ventures. The platform transformed from an experimental field to a productivity cornerstone amid explosive business growth in six months.....

Alibaba Cloud launched the fully managed AI Agent platform Cloud Agents on May 28, 2026, offering full-stack capabilities from infrastructure to runtime via API, reducing agent development from one month to one day to accelerate AI-native application adoption. While general-purpose agent tools boost personal efficiency, underlying infrastructure like inference engines and runtime sandboxes still need improvement.....

Tech giants like Google are competing in the new arena of running large models locally. Google announced the Coral AI development board, set for summer 2026, featuring a high-performance NPU chip with up to 1 TOPS of computing power, enabling AI hardware developers to run large models smoothly in offline environments without relying on the cloud or network.....

On May 27, Robinhood launched Agentic Trading and Agentic Credit Card, shifting financial services from AI-assisted advice to autonomous execution. Users can integrate third-party AI agents for automated trading, powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, positioning AI as their financial proxy.....

On May 28, AI unicorn MiniMax reported that its global enterprise and developer clients surpassed one million, a fivefold increase from six months ago, with approximately 300 million users worldwide. B2B commercialization accelerated, with annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeding expectations in the past two months, demonstrating strong revenue growth.....

On May 27, autonomous driving AI software firm Cognition raised over $1 billion, reaching a post-investment valuation of $26 billion. Just eight months earlier, its valuation was around $10.2 billion, a surge of over $15 billion, highlighting the capital market's frenzy for AI programming.....

ElevenLabs launches the Music v2 music generation model, achieving three major breakthroughs compared to its predecessor: support for dynamic style switching, improved complexity of musical arrangement, and vocal expression. The new model 'blocks' the creation process, offering a fine-grained workflow, allowing artists to flexibly adjust the style of different sections, no longer limited to simple text-to-audio generation, significantly enhancing the flexibility and expressiveness of music creation.

Xiaomi's official recruitment system launched the 'Xiaomi Recruitment Agent' on May 28, an AI assistant that streamlines campus hiring. It automatically parses resumes for education, projects, and skills, accurately matches job openings, and provides real-time answers to recruitment policy queries like interview rounds and offer timelines, boosting job-seeking efficiency.....

Snowflake, a cloud data storage company, has signed a five-year, $6 billion strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services, deepening their AI computing infrastructure collaboration. This deal exceeds Snowflake's total historical sales through AWS Marketplace since its founding in 2012, highlighting its strategic importance.....

On May 28, 2026, the global AI evaluation platform Artificial Analysis released a speech ranking list. Alibaba's Fun-Realtime-TTS-Preview speech large model obtained 1190 points, ranking fifth globally and first nationally. The model ranked first in three core speech fields such as ASR, demonstrating its comprehensive leading strength.

In May 2026, Autobot Robotics open-sourced the VLA model Wall-OSS-0.5, achieving a breakthrough in zero-shot deployment. This innovation breaks the traditional 'pre-test fine-tuning' paradigm, driving embodied intelligence from custom scripts to a universal brain.....

About 30 major Japanese firms, including Asahi Kasei, Yaskawa Electric, and Fujitsu, are considering investing in a new AI joint venture under SoftBank, established in April by SoftBank's mobile unit to boost Japan's domestic AI development and global competitiveness across industries like chemicals, robotics, automotive, and electronics.....

SpaceX disclosed in its IPO filing that a severe shortage of AI chips has hindered its orbital AI deployment, with supply far below planned demand, forcing temporary purchases that increase risks. To address the crisis, the company plans to collaborate with Tesla and xAI to build a Terafab wafer factory to alleviate the shortage.....